Eofauna: New for 2022

[Flaffy]

I find it a bit unfortunate that the Diplodocus already suffers from this easily avoidable issue. Hopefully my copy won't have paint scuffs when I get it, but seeing how many reports of such instances, I'm not holding my breath.

[Over9K]

The shipping box for my Dippy and Konobelodon was absolutely wrecked when it got here, and the UPS guy insisted I immediately open it and make sure the contents were ok. Other than a small paint rub on Dippy's muzzle, everything was fine. I'll get out my brown wash and fix that paint rub soon...

[GojiraGuy1954]

I really hope EoFauna's next proboscidean is something basal or a furry elephant. They have no basal elephants and only one elephant with large amounts of hair, their Steppe Mammoth.

[Darko2300]

How is Everything Dinosaur for shipments to the US? Would International Tracked and Signed be faster than ParcelForce? 🤔 Sometimes the more expensive option isn't necessarily the faster one.

[Concavenator]

@Darko2300 Dan's Dinosaurs also carries Eofauna stuff, and they're US based. Just saying, shipping costs would surely be lower there, in your case.

[Over9K]

How is Everything Dinosaur for shipments to the US? Would International Tracked and Signed be faster than ParcelForce? 🤔 Sometimes the more expensive option isn't necessarily the faster one.

As Concavenator says Dan's Dinosaurs carries EoFauna.

There is also DeJankins.com. I've bought from them a few times, mostly retired Safari and Collecta stuff. They're Nice folks to deal with.

[Darko2300]

Thank you both. My question was more general than just EoFauna figures, but I'll certainly hit up DeJankins for domestically available things.

[SidB]

In the flurry of excitement over the arrival of the Diplodocus, their Konobelodon can get forgotten. Looking over mine, recently acquired from Dans, I was impressed with its quality , as good as or better than its predecessors in the Eofauna line-up. I had also been comparing it to the CollectA Gomphotherium, probally their best proboscidean to date, IMO.
Now CollectA's 1/40 scale line is notable for widely differing scales, of course. A quick measurement of the Gomphotherium showed it to be quite close to 1/32, which is reasonably close to the Konobelodon's 1/35.  They make a great pair displayed together:

[CARN0TAURUS]

I take it there has been no news on their new Tyrannosaur yet?

[Halichoeres]

My Diplodocus came from DeJankins and was scuff-free!

[dinofelid]

Now CollectA's 1/40 scale line is notable for widely differing scales, of course. A quick measurement of the Gomphotherium showed it to be quite close to 1/32, which is reasonably close to the Konobelodon's 1/35.

The CollectA page here says it was meant to be part of their 1/20 scale, but I guess it would depend on which species we imagine the model as depicting--the wiki page here says most species were Asian elephant sized with one typical specimen of G. productum being 8 foot 3 inches high, but also says the largest species G. steinheimense had a specimen about 10.4 feet high. The review of the CollectA model here said it was about 4 inches tall at the top of the head, so for G. productum it would be around 1/25 scale, I guess you were assuming G. steinheimense when you said 1/32 scale? Searching on this forum, Flaffy did say here that the shorter jaw tusks might be a better match for G. steinheimense than other species.

edit: I see the CollectA page I linked at the beginning gives a more precise measure for its height: 9.2 cm or 3.62 inches. So in that case it would be 1/27 scale for G. productum and 1/34 scale for G. steinheimense.

[SidB]

D @dinofelid , 1/34  for G. steinheimense - that works for me. Thanks for the research. Also, you're quite right, it was listed  as part of the larger scale 1/20 collection by CollectA, not 1/40; I must have been suffering a brain spasm.

[CARN0TAURUS]

Has there been any news on the pending eofauna tyrannosaur?

[suspsy]

 None. Probably won't be any till sometime next month—-if we're lucky.

[Halichoeres]

I think you can be sure that the moment EoFauna announces something on one of their social media channels, people will be racing here to share it.

[Thialfi]

[SidB]

That's encouraging, @Thialfi !

[Pliosaurking]

Well that's promising!

[CARN0TAURUS]

Well that's promising!

I can't wait to see it but might it be time to start discussing this one on a 2023 release thread?

[Bread]

Well that's promising!

I can't wait to see it but might it be time to start discussing this one on a 2023 release thread?

We should get the reveals of the figure soon. Being that they released images around this time last year (october 2021) and the figure was released the following year around March 2022. So I do agree, 2023 should be the anticipated release of this figure.